From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 21 19:25:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE7137B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A6043E3B for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:25:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6M2PDNw001144 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:25:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17WSsr-0000jl-00 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:25:13 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Administrators - GUI's or Command lines References: <004101c2310b$8029f5b0$2afececd@TCOOPER> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 21 Jul 2002 21:25:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <004101c2310b$8029f5b0$2afececd@TCOOPER> Message-ID: <87it38h52u.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-07-21T23:08:17Z, "Grant Cooper" writes: > quick question for the admins, do you guys perfer to work out of a GUI > such as KDE or just from freeBSD CLI(command line interface)? I'm a huge Gnome fan. However, for administration, I mostly refuse to touch GUI configurators. When I update the configuration of a complex system, I want to know *exactly* what's being changed. Furthermore, after learning how to configure different programs, I find 'vi complex-program.conf' to be extremely user-friendly. Most config files are more well-documented than their GUI counterparts. -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message